Washing apparatus



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.V

OHAS. C. HGLIDDEN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

WASHING APPARATUS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 49,748, `dated September 5, 1865.

To alt whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, CHAS. C. H. GLTDDEN, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Washing Apparatus; and I do hereby declare the saine to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a top view, Fig. 2 a side elevation, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal and vertical section, of it.

In carrying out my invention I support a wash-bowl and a reservoir or Vase for holding water upon a hollow stand or tank, designed to receive the slops or dirty water of the washbowl and to so communicate with such washbowl that by opening the passage between them the liquid from the bowl may be discharged into the tank. Thus the tank answers two purposes-as a tablet or support for the wash-bowl and its accessories and areceiver ot the waste water of such bowl.

In the drawings, A denotes the tank or hollow tablet, on the top of which are the washbowl B and the clean-water holder or vase O, they beingarranged in manner as shown in the drawings. Furthermore, the tank on its upper surface s provided with raised ledges a 111,150 encompass the bottom parts ot each ot` the vessels placed on such surface-that is, there may be such a ledge around each or all of the vessels, the same being to cause water which may run down the outside of any such vessel to be discharged into the tank or into the space encompassed by the ledge. In this way such water will be prevented from fallin g oi' the Jtop of the tank and upon the iloor or table over which the tank may be situated. There may be one or more orifices made through the top of the tank and within the space inclosed by Vthe ledge, the same being in order that such water may iiow into the tank. A short pipe,

from properly supporting the bowl on a table or flat surface. There should also be a faucet, f, to project from the vase C and directly over the wash-bowl, so as to enable water from the vase to be discharged into the wash-bowl. Furthermore, the vase may be so made or arranged as to be capable ot` being heated by a lamp introduced underneath it and on the top of the tank, or it may have other and wellknown means ot' heating its liquid contents.

A soap-dish, E, may7 also be applied to the top ot' the tank and within a ledge, s, raised thereon, and by one or more holes in its bottom may open into the tank. In a similar manner a tooth-brush dish, F, may be made and applied to the top ot' the tank.

A common wash-stand, as ordinarily made, has its slop-jar, ewer, and bowl separate from it; but with my improved wash-stand I not only have a water jar or vase for holding a supply of clean water, but a slop-tank, which is arranged so as to give support to the bowl and vase, and designed, when used, to be placed on a table. When it maybe desirable to empty the tank of water the bowl and its accessories may first be removed from the tank, which may afterward have the water discharged from it, or instead thereof the water may be drawn out of the tank by means ot a faucet or its equivalent properly ixed in or to it.

I do not claim the washing apparatus constituting the subject of the United States PattentNo. 41,986, in which the stand for supporting the bowl is separate from the waste-water reservoir.

I claim as my invention- My improved manufacture or washing apparatus, as having its waste-water tank, a support fon the. fresh-water vase and bowl, and provided not only with devices or ledges a b Z for holding the vessels in place on it, but with an opening or short tube, D, arranged, as described, to receive a pipe, c, from the washbowl, the whole being as specified.

OHAS. C. H. GLIDDEN.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

